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Are Labour's attack ads 'gutter politics'?

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The Conservative Party's Failure to Sentencing Review Child Sexual Abuse

In 2018, the majority of offenders were sentenced to immediate custody for child rape offenses. The average sentence for an adult is three years and eight months. Of that four and a half thousand child sexual abusers who did not go to prison, two thousand of them just over got a community sentence. You could have put out an ad which said the Labour Party is going to lock up more child sexual offenders. Fine. But you're criticizing them and you've just done so. Because they're just criticizing them for being too lenient on these people. So are you going to be tougher? Well, we're going to have a Sentencing Review to see how the whole system is working,. That's

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